Andrée Sursock, PhD, is Senior Adviser at the European University Association (EUA). She is involved in a range of projects on the topic of quality assurance in higher education and recently completed the EUA’s Trends 2015 report, focusing on learning and teaching developments in Europe. She serves on a number of boards of universities and quality assurance agencies and advises governments on quality assurance procedures.

As Deputy Secretary General at EUA (2001 and 2009), she was responsible for developing EUA’s quality assurance policy positions and activities. She holds a first degree in philosophy from the University Panthéon Sorbonne (France) and a PhD in social-cultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley (USA). Before joining EUA, she was Director of Development at the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information of the Open University, (UK), taught at a variety of institutions in the USA, and held an administrative post at Stanford University.